Genesis

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Árpád Bogdán
  • Hungary 2018
  • 120 minutes
  • Hungarian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Ricsi, a young Roma whose father is in prison, endures bullying at school; Virag, a teenage archer is serious about her sport and about a young man she likes; and Hanna, a young lawyer, is under pressure from her superiors to take on the defense of a man facing trial for the part he allegedly played in a racially motivated murder that took place during the 2008-2009 attacks by Hungarian neo-Nazis on Roma villages. The murder, based on true events, connects the three and changes their lives.


  • Director Árpád Bogdán
  • Production Andrea Taschler, Gábor Ferenczy
  • Script Árpád Bogdán
  • Cinematography Tamás Dobos
  • Editing Péter Politzer
  • Music Mihály Víg
  • Festivals Berlinale, Sofia (Special Jury Award), Seattle
  • Actors Milán Csordás, Anna Marie Cseh, Enikő Anna Illési, Lídia Danis
  • Source Hungarian National Film Fund, Budapest